Latest Allen W. Wood Quotes from Interviews

• As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.

  Allen W. Wood

  Party, Race, Long

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• It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.

  Allen W. Wood

  Party, Ignorance, Race

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• It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.

  Allen W. Wood

  Depressing, Xenophobia, Persistence

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• It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.

  Allen W. Wood

  Depressing, Religious, Taken

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• Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.

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  Presidential, Humanity, Lasts

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• Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).

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  Religious, Powerful, Teaching

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• I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Important

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• I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Addresses

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• Fichte es un paso necesario tanto para Hegel como para Marx.

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  Steps, Hegel

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• When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

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  Sides, Philosopher, Tradition

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• Que la teoría de Hegel sea derivada de la de Fichte no impide que sea llamativamente original y de valor independiente.

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  Independent, Doe, Derivatives

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• Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

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  Real, Recognition, Hegel

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• Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.

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  Domination, Concerned

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• Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.

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  Thinking, Self, Recognition

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• It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

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  Communication, Partners, Investigation

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• It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.

  Allen W. Wood

  Nice, Philosophy, Communication

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• No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

  Allen W. Wood

  Body, Human Nature, Partners

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

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  Errors, Objectifying, Action

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• The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

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  Determination, Thinking, Self

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• Fichte identificaría todos los estados de nuestra mente con estados de nuestro cuerpo -quizás no sólo de nuestro cerebro, sino de todo el cuerpo como organismo actuante-.

  Allen W. Wood

  Brain, Mind, Acting

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• Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

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  Thinking, Law, Moral

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• Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Substance, World, Causes

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• Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

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  Self, Determined, Free Will

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• What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?

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  Poderoso, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.

  Allen W. Wood

  Long, Humanity, Done

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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